By Marvelous Plumbing & Heating

The Med Hat Heat is coming!

Apr 30, 2021 | 5:00 AM

Air Conditioning Maintenance

As the snow starts to melt and the spring season starts or in Medicine Hat with our two seasons from Winter to Summer. You’ll want to re-examine your system to be sure it’s ready. A few spring maintenance tips you may want to perform on your HVAC system. What does HVAC mean? For those who don’t know, it means Heating, Ventilation, and Air conditioning

What you can do as a home owner:

• Replacing your filter. While you also did this in winter, changing the removable filter in each of your HVAC units every season helps to prevent pollen and other particles that can agitate allergies from getting into your home. Air flow is also a huge thing. If your filter is plugged and there isn’t proper air flow through your coil inside your furnace can freeze up and your furnace could not operate properly.
• Testing and cleaning your cooling systems. Having a maintenance check and HVAC cleaning from an HVAC tech can help to increase the efficiency of how your system runs. You can also identify and fix small issues with your HVAC system before they become expensive repairs.
• Clearing your outdoor condenser. Making sure the outdoor air conditioning condenser is free of any weeds or vegetation, and that air can move freely around the unit. This being plugged with cotton from cotton trees/dirty or other thing will make you unit not operate correctly.

If you’re not comfortable doing this or if something doesn’t seem right, sound right or you A/C doesn’t seem to be cooling your house or is struggling to. Contact your regular HVAC technician of your choice for a tune-up. You change the oil in your car, it’s a good idea to get a tune up on your air conditioning system yearly before it gets too hot and it’s too late.

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An A/C tune-up keeps your air conditioning system in good working order, this is what your air conditioning tech will normally check:

• Inspect coolant levels & pressure
• Check & adjust thermostat
• Inspect wiring, contacts, capacitors & relays
• Inspect evaporator coil
• Inspect and clean condenser
• Inspect condensate drain
• Inspect outdoor disconnect
• Inspect condenser fan motor & blades
• Inspect compressor at startup

When completed you should receive a recommendation for any further maintenance or repair needs of your system and your technician should be able to send you an estimate. If the unit is past its life expectance and its older less efficient technology. It might be time to replace it. Many units in Medicine Hat still have the older freon R-22 which in the field we refer to as “liquid gold” because of its high cost and that it is being phased out and soon will be no longer available. Due to Covid-19 we may have supply issues with units and there may be wait times. With the temperatures hitting above 20c at the end of April, beginning of May it’s better to get it checked out sooner than later.